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Researching and Celebrating Kaaps
The 3rd Kaaps Symposium was held on the 15th and 16th of August 2024, at the UWC Centre for Humanities Research Iyatsiba Lab in Woodstock, Cape Town. The event was jointly hosted by the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research (CMDR), the Afrikaans and...
The Right to Learn – A resource for teachers, activists and community educators
Pam Christie’s The Right to Learn: The Struggle for Education in South Africa is a relevant and elucidating introductory text on the history and politics of education in South Africa. In the book, there is a call to action, a reminder that education is inherently...
The Islamic roots of Afrikaans
When I read a newspaper article in the Mail and Guardian titled “The Islamic Roots of Afrikaans” written by Charles Leonard on 27 March 2024, it resonated quite deeply within me. In my honours research paper, I performed a textual analysis on various Arabic-Afrikaans...
Bilingual education pamphlets launched
On the 21st February 2024, we launched a series of bilingual education pamphlets at the International Mother Language Day celebration in East London. International Mother Language Day is a UNESCO initiative which seeks to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and...
Developing the love of Science through bilingual teaching
In this blog, Science educator, Nosimo Ndzotyana, writes about her experience with the bua-lit materials ‘iSayensi Yethu’. Natural Sciences and Technology aims at equipping and preparing the learners for the changing world. Without any doubt we cannot resist the...